first up, A THOUSAND APOLOGIES to everyone who grabbed the previous version of this torrent

i screwed up the sample rate when making the 24 bit to 16 bit conversion - and everything ended up running slow

(huge thanks to xathierx for spotting it and pointing it out - and for being so nice about it!)

that's fixed now - though i realise that that's little compensation to the 100 of you who were in the process of downloading it - some of you at 98%

i'm painfully aware that it was a large download - and that consequently i've done some serious damage to some of your ratios

again, i can only say sorry, sorry, sorry

i think this is a pretty nice recording, and i hope that you're prepared to give it another go

but i certainly can't blame you if you decide not to do it all over again!

below is my original description

for a third time, many many apologies

and i really do hope you enjoy ray x

** original description **

the last time i saw the cure was in this same building

in 1986

and here i am again

only they're playing older songs than they did that time...

getting a ticket for this show was both expensive and difficult

but where else can you get 25 years taken off your life for 125 quid?

also, once i hear the myriad languages being spoken in the halls, i realise that my outlay was definitely a lot less than most folks here - i think i may be the only punter who hasn't flown in specially from somewhere in mainland europe

around me in the seats it seems to be predominantly eastern europe

having come all that way, my neighbours are understandably excited

and that excitement leaks onto the recording on occasion

though thankfully only between the songs

and who can blame them?

the band do not disappoint

and neither do the songs

if anything sounding even better than they did 30 years ago

right, says robert smith, just before the final encore, i'm off to take some acid

and i suddenly realise that that's what all these songs sound like

the excitement of coming up on three imaginary boys

the bewilderment of finding yourself there on seventeen seconds

and the bleakness of the seemingly endless comedown on faith

then talking about it with your friends aftrerwards on the singles in the encores!

am i the only person that hasn't until now realised that let's go to bed is about tripping?

anyhow - this came out pretty great

but make our own comparison with the earlier recording with the samples below

enjoy ray x

** comments are always very much appreciated - and take much less time to leave than it did to tape, prep and up this show... **

The Cure 'Reflections' The Royal Albert Hall London UK 15th November 2011